Longer term, none of this is disastrous, or even necessarily bad news, for the centre left.

One of the commissioners had reached the fort early with disastrous news.

They needed to work to keep their minds off the disastrous news from home, and they were all trusted men and women.

Mr. Bush's slow, hesitant reaction to the disastrous news has never been a secret.

As a matter of fact, he is my lawyer's clerk, and has been here to-night charged with disastrous news.

Earlier this year, Tuckahoe officials received disastrous news.

After the disastrous news last spring, the department lost one of its seven faculty members and three of its 20 graduate students to other universities.

And then one night he climbed the hill with disastrous news.

The moment he received the disastrous news, that old raven began to circle overhead.

Night and day, too, the telegraph clicked with disastrous news and anxious inquiry.